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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. TEW YORK. The worries that ' clouded the round, good-natured face o Gen. Sir Thomas Albert Blarney last April are fading fast. '. i Hehadnight- Two-War General mares then Now Depreciates from think-Japs think-Japs as Filters nese poised on nearby islands for a jump to Australia. Now he ticks off Guadalcanal, Buna and Gona and sundry imminent captures and opines that the Nips are hardly the fighters they were cracked up to be. The general should be a first class judge of fighting men. He has been in two big wars, mostly most-ly up where the shooting was most prolonged, and is rated a rattling good tactician. He commanded com-manded the Australians in Greece and his handling of his battalions is one of the few good memories of that desperate and luckless venture. To the present pres-ent generation of Australian soldiers sol-diers Blarney is "Old Tom," 59 years old and a loyal supporter of our own Gen. Douglas (they-never (they-never - invite - him) MacArthart under whom he has commanded the Allied ground forces in the southwest Pacific for more than a year. When the war started Blarney reduced re-duced his own rank so that he might lead the first division of Aussies in the field. He had been the commonwealth's common-wealth's chief-of-staff. Before that he was in charge of recruiting, and long before that, when the Japs were only a faint distant hiss on the horizon, he was chief of police of the state of Victoria. He married late, at 51, and has a son. In the First World war he was mentioned seven times in dispatches. In that war, as in this one, he led a mixed force of Australians and Americans. With these he helped crack the Hin-denburg Hin-denburg line. SINCE "Dogs are people" on the word of the club whose doings are told by Darragh Aldrich over a midwestern radio station, General , , "Ike" Eisen- Gen. Ike Holds hower'sScot-Up hower'sScot-Up Captaincy of tie, Telek, This Dog of War c e a 1 l7 , rates this ' column. Especially as he has been invited to be the club's commander-in-chief with the rank of captain. Commander Harry C. Butcher, Butch-er, naval aide to Eisenhower, has conveyed to Mrs. Aldrich from Africa, Scottie's thanks and his master's gratification. But, alas, General Eisenhower decrees that Telek may accept only a corporal's rank! He's been in service only since October Octo-ber 14, the general's birthday. Telek was a year old on June 29, 1943. But before he reached his first birthday he was a proud father. His wife is Commander Butcher's Caacie, pronounced Khaki. It stands for "Canine Auxiliary Air Corps." Telek and Caacie have a son and a daughter now. Only satisfaction over the way the war goes overshadowed over-shadowed the thrill of arrival of their family, Commander Butcher writes. Recently Telek tried to eat a scorpion, scor-pion, and now his tongue has the outlines of an elm leaf. The general gen-eral was away but Telek knew that under the circumstances he was entitled en-titled to the comfort of the general's bed, and took it. During bombings Telek and Caacie and the pups go under the general's bed together. "For the general, Telek and Caacie afford opportunity for escape from war," writes Butcher. More power to them! D IO DE JANEIRO repeats her as-t- surance that a Brazilian overseas over-seas force waits only a call from the United Nations, and if the call . comes the Brazils Overseas odds are Fores Ready; War that the Chief May Lead It cmmandmg general will be Brazil's war minister, the serious seri-ous but hard-riding cavalryman, Enrico Gaspar Dutra. Dutra has been Brazil's outstanding out-standing commander for almost ten years and a soldier in fact as well as in heart since he was 16. He made up his mind then, after reading limitless lives of military heroes from the deifiefl Alexander onward. He enlisted, was graduated from the state military academy at 22 and moved up steadily to become a brigadier general after the Sao Paulo rebellion 11 years ago. Four years later he was appointed appoint-ed minister of war. His decorations decora-tions are numerous and include Brazil's Order of Military Merit. Unlike some good generals he is highly articulate and his lectures in the general staff school and at the military academy in Rio de Janeiro were long remembered. He has written a number of books on military mili-tary matters and knows mechanized mechan-ized warfare down to the last gasket gas-ket and crankcasc boit. He has been a horseman almost from birth, and trained to the saddle as a boy out on the broad, cattle-covered cattle-covered plateau of the Mato Grosso. But he quite easily shifted to mechanized mech-anized cavalry when it crowded the hayburners out of warfare. |